She was Here

from Follow The Gleam by The Boo-Hooray Theory

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5. She Was Here

Stand alone at midnight
up on the crowded deck.
See the lights of Calais;
the hairs rise on my neck.
Somewhere darkness hides her,
the girl who holds my heart.
Love, don’t fail me on her trail,
but who knows where to start?

She was here,
I’m only hours behind her.
She was here,
but I was too late to find her.

Everywhere I wander,
the story’s just the same:
packed her bags and left here,
the day before I came.
Why does she still haunt me?
Why do I still stay?
In my dreams she always seems
to turn her face away.

She was here etc.

I’m the fool who told her
I didn’t want to know.
(I didn’t want her love.)
Now if I could hold her,
I’d never let her go.

On the day I saw her,
I tried to touch her hand.
Now at last I’d tell her
and make her understand.
She waits on the corner.
She turns round when I call.
In her eyes there’s no surprise:
it wasn’t her at all.

She was here etc.

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from Follow The Gleam, released January 22, 2013
composed by Heneghan & Lawson

Ben Heneghan: vocals, keyboards
Ian Lawson: piano, rhodes
Mike Heneghan: bass
Andrew Lawson: drums
Sylvia Strand: backing vocals
Kat Squire: backing vocals
Hwyel Maggs: guitar
Dan Jones: guitar
Gethin Liddington: trumpet
Gareth Roberts: trombone
Lee Goodall: alto sax
Osian Roberts: tenor sax

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The Boo-Hooray Theory Cardiff, UK

The Boo-Hoory Theory is led by composers Ben Heneghan and Ian Lawson. The band records and performs original Heneghan & Lawson songs with a 'classic' 11-piece, line up.

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